Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said prudent Prince Paul: "I am very happy . . . that the great German Reich . . . intends to recognize her [Yugoslavia's] freedom and independence as well as the same [Austrian] frontiers which have joined us as lasting neighbors since last year...
...publication of The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, it looked as if this literary war had entered a new phase. Convinced after a year of arguing that he has grossly overestimated both British strength and British cunning, Quincy Howe settled down to write a new book: The Prudent American's Guide to Peace...
Besides uncounted numbers of deer, bear, foxes, rabbits, squirrels and birds of the forest, there are abroad in the woods this hunting season some 300,000 CCC workers. Following a custom he believes prudent, Director Robert Fechner of CCC last week addressed a letter to State game wardens thanking them for their help in the past and asking them again this year to keep his boys from being shot...
...famed Van Sweringen brothers bought their first railroad-the Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R.)-from the New York Central for $8,500,000. The road made money steadily for 15 years. But between 1927 and 1929 the Vans made a second, less prudent purchase. After a spectacular tussle with the Taplin interests (Pittsburgh & West Virginia R. R.), which resulted in a virtual corner on the stock market, they bought control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie...
...great power today has a genuine "balanced budget" or equality of actual income and actual expenditure, and none has kept its national debt within prudent bounds. Comparatively, British Government finances make a good showing for the budget period 1938-39. National debt: $40,130,635,000-of which Britain owes the U. S. today $4,487,670,000. Expenditures: $4,721,990,000-an increase from last year of $407,500,000. Estimated surplus: $1,760,000-obtained by covering the actual deficit not shown in the Budget with a loan of $450,000,000 earmarked for Rearmament. Total expenditure...